Sound Effects for Dance Movements
BASIC
All 8 Circulate - "All-8, all-8"
Allemande Left - Clap
hands
Bend the Line - "Get Bent!"
Chain Down the Line
- "Chain me down, chain me down!"
Couples Circulate - "Circles
Copulate"
Dive Thru - "Dive, dive"
-
"A-oo-ga" (submarine diving noise)
Double Pass Thru - "DPT!"
Ferris Wheel - "Wheeee"
-
End turns center under arm during turn
Flutterwheel - "Whoop,
whoop, whoop"
Ladies Chain - (at C1 & above) Balance and
whoop in the center,
and
eliminate Courtesy Turn
Ladies In, Men Sashay - Ladies whoop it up
Move Up to the Middle and Back
-
"Moooo"
Pass the Ocean - "Splash!"
-
Clap hands
Promenade Halfway - Inactives do a Highland Fling Do Si Do
-
Inactives do a ballroom dance turn
-
Inactives make circle, do 2 hip bumps with opposite
Reverse the
Flutter - "Pow, pow, pow"
-
"Leehw Rettulf"
Right and Left Grand - Balance and slap L
hands when meeting someone with
the
R hand
Right and Left Thru - "Thank you"
-
"Thank you" then "You're welcome"
-
(as a sequence opener at Challenge) "We can do that"
Shoot
the Star - "Bang!"
Square Thru - (as a sequence opener,
done by heads or sides)
Inactives
do 2 California Twirls
Stars (during singing call figures (not
breaks))
-
"Aaaaughhh!!!!!!" (scream of despair)
Sweep 1/4 - Sweep the
floor with free hand
Swing Thru - "Schwing!"
Touch 1/4
- Touch forehead with free hand
-
Touch forehead and say "Doh!" a la Homer Simpson
Trade By -
"Bye!" (wave goodbye as you pass or trade)
U-Turn Back - "Baaa"
Veer to the Left/Right - "Vera!"
Wheel and Deal - "Wheeling"
then "Dealing"
-
"...and squeal"
Zoom - "ZZZOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!"
MAINSTREAM
Centers Cross Run - "Mee..." (see Mix)
Cloverleaf -
Spread arms, act like a child playing airplane
Dixie Style to a Wave
- "Hi, Dixie!"
-
"Ditsy style"
Eight Chain Thru - "Bor-ring!"
Fan the Top - "With a big left hand"
-
(from LH waves) "With a big wrong hand"
-
Fan yourself with the outside hand
Hinge - "Creak"/make
creaking noise
Scoot Back - Scooters grunt
-
Scooters squeal if girls
-
Non-scooters say "Go Girl!" if girls scooting
Slide Thru - "Whoosh"
while gracefully sliding arms out
to
the sides
Spin the Top - "Spin the Top"
-
"Spin the Top" then "He's no top" (and on, and on...)
-
"189"
-
(from LH waves) "981"
Tag the Line - (Trailer taps leader
on shoulder) "You're it!"
PLUS
Acey Deucey - "Quack" (also if cued)
<anything>
and Spread - "The higher priced spread"
-
"I can't believe it's not butter!"
Chase Right - "Chase
me, chase me!"
-
"I'm chased"
Coordinate - "Your shoes don't match your
bag!"
Crossfire - Machine gun noises
Cut the Diamond - "Hai-ahhh!"
-
"Hiya!"
Diamond Circulate - Clap hands
Dixie Grand - "Right!
Left! Right!"
-
"Right! Wrong! Right!"
Explode <anything> - "Boom!"
Flip the Diamond - Flip hands up to shoulders, squeal
Follow Your
Neighbor - "Hi, neighbor!"
-
"Shazam!"
Grand Swing Thru - "Ain't it grand?"
-
Make "Tarzan swinging through trees" sound
Linear Cycle - "Hinge,
fold, pass [or follow], peel"
-
"Hinge, hold, pass, feel"
-
"Hinge, fold, cop a feel"
-
"Blah, blah, blah, blah"
-
"Hinge, fold, Mister Popeil"
Load the Boat - "Toot,
toot"/"Whoo, whoo"
-
Make a tugboat whistle sound
Partner Tag - Snap fingers
Peel Off
- "Rice!"
Peel the Top - (from a Z) "What a surprise!"
Ping Pong Circulate - Clap hands
Relay the Deucey - "Girl on,
boy off, girl on, boy off" (regardless
of
the initial position)
-
"Hey, Lucy!" in a Desi Arnaz voice
Remake the Thar - "Quarter!
Half! Three-quarters!"
Teacup Chain - Morose grumbling
-
Wild cheering
Track Two - "Track, track"
-
"Toot, toot"/"Whoo, whoo"
-
"Track, track, whoopee, whoopee"
-
"Toot, toot, whoopee, whoopee"
Trade and Roll - "Troll"
Trade the Wave - (at Advanced and above) "Wave"
Triple
Scoot - "Rooty-toot-toot!"
(when first getting into a
diamond for the first time of the night)
-
"I see it!"
ADVANCED
All 4 Couples Right and Left Thru
-
"I LOVE this call!"
Anything and Cross - Snarl crossly
Cast a Shadow - Hingers whoop
-
Non-whoop-ees shout "Rats!"
-
Those casting back do elaborate over-the-shoulder
arm
sweep
-
Shadower raises arms, stalks the person being
followed
-
"Casta Diva"
Chain Reaction - "Hinge, fold, pass, feel"
Double Star Thru - "Bing, bang"
Half Breed Thru -
Indian-style whoo-whoo-whoo
Horseshoe Turn - "Ah choo!"
-
"Ah choo!" then "Bless you"
-
"Ah, shit!"
-
"Horse shit!"
Lock It - "Click"
Mini Busy - "...but
few are chosen"
Mix - "Meow" (also if cued, then "Me"
on the Cross Run,
and
"Ow" on the trade)
Motivate - "I don't want to"
Pass and Roll - "Pass the rolls?"
-
Original centers slap floor twice after turning
around
Pass Out - Act faint
Pass the Sea - "Wheee!"
Peel and
Trail - "Peeling" then "Trailing"
-
"Trailers always trade"
Scoot and Weave - "Scooting"
then "Weaving"
Scoot Chain Thru - "Work, work, work"
-
"Work, work, work" then "Bitch, bitch, bitch"
-
"Shop, shop, shop"
Step and Slide - "Scratch and Sniff"
Swap Around - Belles mime slapping opposite beau's face
Switch <anything>
- "Swish!"
Trade Circulate - (from 2-faced lines) "Ding,
ding" then "He's
not
here"
Transfer the Column - "Where do you want it?"
Triple Star Thru - "Bing, bang, bong"
Wheel Thru - Clap
CHALLENGE 1
Ah So - "Wahoo"
Alter the Wave - "Walter"
-
"No little waves here!"
Butterfly - Flutter arms gracefully
Checkover - "...the children, Lucille"
-
"The chitlins"
Counter Rotate - "Big one"
Cross and Turn - Beaus go "Bang!"
Cross Chain and Roll - "Bagels"
Cross Chain Thru - "No bagels"
Dixie Sashay - Do air kisses
during Slither
Linear Action - "Starts with a hinge"
Make Magic - "Poof" as you flick fingers in conjuring gesture
O - Raise hands above head to form an O
-
"Oh"
Pass the Axle - "Who are you calling an axle?"
-
"Don't turn the star!"
-
"Ouch!"
Percolate - "Olate, olate"
-
(on Turn Thru or Cross) "Ole!"
Ramble - "Rambo!"
Relay the Shadow - see Cast a Shadow
Reverse Cross and Turn - Belles
go "Gnab!"
Reverse Explode - "Moob!"
Rotary
Spin - Make buzzing sound
-
"Buzz"
Scatter Scoot - "Scatterbrains"
Scoot
Back (as part of something else, e.g. in Tag Back to a Wave)
-
"Back, back!"
Square Chain the Top - "Top, top, top"
Square the Bases - "With smiling faces"
-
Do a grotesquely fixed grin
-
"Don't touch me" when passing shoulders
-
"Shoulders" when passing shoulders, while
elaborately
making a show of avoiding contact
with
the other dancer
-
"Don't turn the star!"
Squeeze the Butterfly - "Yuck!"
Stretch Ah So - "Oooh!"
Stretch <anything> - Yawn and
stretch arms
Swing the Fractions - "Quarter! Half! Three
quarters! Half! Quarter!"
Tally Ho - "Yoicks!"
Triple Cross - "Bang, bang, bang!"
Wheel Fan Thru - "Wheel
your fanny!"
-
"It's no biggie"
Zing - (sung on a high note) "Laaaa!"
CHALLENGE 2
Bounce the <anyone> - <anyone> jumps up and down
Chisel Thru - "In! Out! In!" or "In! In!! In!!!" as
appropriate
Criss Cross the Shadow - see Cast a Shadow
Criss
Cross Your Neighbor
-
Trailing ends whoop in the middle
-
"Rats!" if your're not a trailing end
Cross Ramble - "Rambo,
and he's cross!"
Cross the K - "Dot the i"
Drop
In - "Anytime!"
File to a Line - "Spread 'em!"
Flip Your Neighbor - Make obscene hand gesture
Funny <anything>
- "Ha"
Here Comes the Judge - Right hand dancer: "Right!"
or "Judge!"
-
"The judge is right"
Hocus Pocus - "Oh oh"
Hubs Trade Back - "Hubba, hubba"
Kick Off - "Ouch!"
while acting like you were just kicked
in
the butt
Little More - "Morons"
<anything>
Motivate - "<anything>ivate", e.g. "Trade-ivate"
or
"Out-roll-tivate"
Perk Up - "Up, up"
-
"Up, up, whatever that means"
-
"Up, Chuck"
<anything> Perk Up - "<anything>
up", e.g. "Trade up" or "Stack up"
Rims
Trade Back - "Rimming"
Single Cross and Wheel - "No
trade"
Sock It To Me - Left hand dancer: "Left!" or "Sock!"
or "Left sock!"
Stagger Circulate - Stagger
Swing
Along - "La, la, la" along with the music
Unwrap the
Diamond - (leading point) "Apres moi!"
With the Flow - "She's
not here" (Flo)
<anything> to a Diamond (from appropriate
t-bone)
-
"But you won't get one"
CHALLENGE
3A
Beau Hop - "Bozo"
Belle Hop - "Belle-zo"
Bias Circulate - "How much?"
-
"Buy a vowel"
-
"I'm biased" or "I'm not biased"
Breaker 3 - "Break
her knee"
-
"Tonya Harding"
-
"Galooli!"
Catch <anything> N - (after the anything) "There's
a catch"
<anything> Chain Thru - "She's not here"
(unless you have Jane at the dance,
then
"She's here")
Checkerboard Mix - "Sounds like dog food"
Cross <anything> - Snarl crossly
Drift Apart - "Split ends"
Ease Off - "Laaa!" (ends) or "Wahoo!" (centers)
Expand the Column - "Flip out!"
Explode the Top - (when
last person joins the star) "<name>'s our hero"
Extender's Dilemma - "Rice or potatoes?"
Flipper's Delight
- "Tuna!"
-
"Getting scrod"
Flipper's Dilemma - "Eat fish or save
Timmy?"
Follow the Leader - "Mooooo"
<anything>
the Gamut - "Dammit!"
Keep Busy - "I am busy"
Locker's Choice - "Near the showers"
Plan Ahead - "Where
DOES that nose go?"
-
"I want one with a moustache!"
Quarter the Deucey - "Poor
deucey"
Reach Out - "Chouting"
-
"Wocka, wocka"
Recoil - "Reeking; coiling"
-
"Reeking; oiling"
Scoot and Fancy - "Sid and Nancy"
-
"Ron and Nancy"
Scoot the Diamond - "What diamond?"
Snap the Lock - Snap fingers when doing partner tag
Something New - "I've
done this before"
Spin Chain the Line - "Del loves this
call"
Spin the Pulley - "No butts? What holds their legs
on?"
Stable - Giggle insanely
Tagger's Delight - "A
blank wall"
Tagger's Dilemma - "Spray paint or Magic
Marker?"
Team Up - "Bo knows!"
Trade the Deucey -
"Quack"
Triple Play - "Hey, hey, hey!"
-
"Smarter than the average bear"
CHALLENGE 3B
Boomerang - "Zoomerang"
Change the Centers/Wave - "Into
what?"
Fan <anything> - "Waive the trade"
Gee Whiz - "Cheese Whiz"
-
"Whizzing!"
Lift Off - "Hasta la vista, baby"
-
"Bye"
Reactivate - "O vate, Pavel"
Reverse
the Pass - "Baby, baby, hey"
Reverse the Top - "Fan
that puppy"
Scramble - "Choo, ah"
Single Ferris
Wheel - "IIIIIIII"
Take 2 - "They're small"
CHALLENGE 4
Bits and Pieces - "Kibbles and bits"
Cross Horseshoe
Turn - "Choo, Ah"
Curli-Wheel - "Hear them squeal"
-
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk"
Make a Pass - "Hey, babe"
Settle Back - "Set O Back"